What I've been working on

I've been working on a javascript API to let gadget developers use realtime communication. I'll write in more depth later (I'm in the keynote at Google I/O right now).

Here's the documentation and here's a link to the discussion group.

There are a ton of cool things this will let developers do. For now, this is a developer preview and the feature's only available on the Talk Developer Sandbox, but it will be available soon in orkut and iGoogle. We wanted to get it out to developers as soon as possible for feedback on the API and to let you get a head start writing gadgets before we launch this to the public.